Why Give Online

Why does the parish encourage electronic giving?

It saves time and treasure!

Church contributions made by check or cash require the following processing: · Volunteer money counters separate the contributions by collection type. · Cash and checks are separated, counted and tallied for each collection. · Deposit tickets are prepared for all cash contributions for each of the collections. · Checks are tallied, totaled and bundled by collection. · Cash deposits are delivered to the bank. · A staff member remotely scans all checks to the bank for deposit. · Each cash contribution made using an envelope and each check contribution is individually recorded in the parishioner’s giving record in our parish database.Approximate total time monthly: 16 hours

Church contributions made through WeShare electronic giving require the following processing: · WeShare donations are directly deposited in the church bank account without any volunteer or staff effort. · A staff member performs a monthly export/import of donations from WeShare into our parish database (about a 10 minute process), which automatically produces the individual parishioner giving records.Approximate total time monthly: 10 minutes